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Autobiography of late NAACP Executive Secretary refers to Sweet Case, Ford and GM strikes, 1943 Riot and Detroit Branch NAACP.

Includes some material on UAW, Ford Motor Company, Sojourner Truth and the 1943 Riots, police-community relations

Condemns the report as superficial whitewash

Describes the Riot of July 25, 1967, the persons arrested, and comments on "motivating factors of the Riot."

Reports on handling of "three days of civil disorder early in August, 1966," the Kercheval incident. (Experience Report 108)

Summarizes a "two-year demonstration project to provide family casework to families confronted with crisis situations" in a Southeast Detroit area whose population is 70% black

Part of report reprinted as p.137-140 of Grimshaw, Allen D., ed. Racial Violence in the United States. Chicago, Aldine, 1969.
"Statement of events of June 20 and June 21, 1943 [and] a series of exhibits reporting in statistical form."

Housing problems and 1943 Riot make this report of special interest.